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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Learning Curve.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rather than sports, Sedaris states that he and his fellow speech therapy students were more interested in
(a) Playing video games.
(b) Baking, making scrapbooks, and doing art projects.
(c) Fighting and lifting weights.
(d) Studying and graduating early.

2. The Japanese cartoon Fatty and Skinny makes Sedaris sad because
(a) Fatty always rejects Skinny in the end.
(b) Fatty is unable to meet Skinny's demands and loses his friendship.
(c) Skinny always demands money from Fatty.
(d) Skinny is unable to meet Fatty's demands, and ends up friendless.

3. Sedaris justifies viewing soap operas in class by
(a) Creating an assignment in which students wrote their own soap operas.
(b) Arguing that soap operas taught attention to character.
(c) Creating a writing assignment in which students predicted upcoming events.
(d) Arguing that soap operas were an eduring fom of writing.

4. Before Paul's personality fully emerged, his parents tried to interest him in
(a) Math and science.
(b) Writing and painting.
(c) Music and sports.
(d) Girls and dating.

5. The title The Youth In Asia applies to
(a) Sedaris' dogs, Fatty and Skinny.
(b) Euthanizing pets and the Japanese cartoon Fatty and Skinny.
(c) Euthanizing pets and adopting new ones.
(d) Sedaris' experiences living with a pet in Japan.

Short Answer Questions

1. The irony of the fisherman's position is that

2. What skill does Sedaris admire in his mother that eludes him?

3. Sedaris fears his father is not up to the task of caring for his new dog, Sophie, because

4. Where music is concerned, Sedaris' father could be described as a

5. Sedaris discovers that most of the boys in speech therapy are

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